5 nice problems to have… Moving on up! Seize the opportunity of your next office move or upgrade
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Outgrowing your workplace may be a nice problem to have for a fast growing business, but it is also a major headache. On top of all the usual cost and pain associated with the move, you may be faced with a whopping penalty for buying-out of several years on your current lease …again. If things keep going this well for your business, how often are you going to need to move?
Instead of seeing it as just a problem to be faced, if you turn it on its head and embrace the opportunity then you could just have an even bigger positive impact on your business than you ever imagined possible.
For many, even in the largest global corporations, work is no longer somewhere you go but something you do. Many jobs have become less task-oriented and more collaborative. Now we are as likely to work with people in the same building or, or just across town as on a different continent.
Planning your own fully digital and mobile workforce right now may well save you a world of pain as you continue to rapidly grow you business.
Workplace transformation involves more than updating furniture, lowering cubicle walls, and putting bright colours on the walls.True workplace transformation requires a strategy that encompasses space design, technology, and policies. If you identify your goals and evaluate your current space and the ways people interact and work, then you can make some smart changes.
Interactions with customers and partners are constantly evolving. With all these elements coming together, and even more on the way, could you change your workspace to work smarter for your customers?
So embrace your move as an opportunity to rethink how you work, and how your next investments in infrastructure are going to support your business for longer. With some smart planning there are benefits that you can achieve that probably weren’t top of your mind when you started planning your move. You could:
- Find you don’t not need as much space as you thought you did
- Discover ways that enable your team to work smarter
- Make cost savings while improving your workspace and infrastructure
- Make operational efficiencies
- Improve your cyber security posture
- And improve your environmental impact
Save space
With the right network and collaboration solutions you may need less space than you think for your staff to get the job done. Very few job roles really require a dedicated, full time workspace. Could you work with a 2:1 employee to desk ratio?
With an all wireless office and the right collaboration tools you will identify areas of your office that have low utilisation, discover ways your team can perform better without being in the office all week, and as a result, plan your workspaces in a way that doesn’t require as much space.
Work smarter
New generations are challenging our perception of how to work and communicate, what technology to use and how to use it. You can use technology to improve collaboration both within and beyond office walls. Make it easier to communicate with whomever you need to, whenever you need to, wherever they are. Enable people to work somewhere else if they need to, and when it is more effective.
Save Energy
Perhaps energy consumption is way down the list today. But it won’t be when your business gets bigger. Heating, cooling, lighting and computing can all be implementing utilising the newest networking controlled technology, you could be improving your environmental footprint and saving money on your energy bills.
Easier configuration and management
Gone are the days of manual configuration. The best solutions come with automation and dashboard management as standard. Whether you need your IT infrastructure on-premise, or in the cloud, now is the time to make light work of your network management.
Save money
Less space needed in the office. Less need to travel for meetings. Better communication and collaboration. More efficiency with less administration; It all adds up to cost savings that will scale as fast as your business grows.
So embrace your next office move. Or perhaps don’t move at all. It could just deliver you benefits across a range of business measurements.
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